Skirt-supporter.



Patanted Jan. 23, |900.

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(Application med nec. 2o, 1'89'7.)

Nrrle LAURA NITSOI'IELM, OF' PEORIA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE AS- SIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO 'FI-IE AMERICAN NOVELTY COMPANY,

OF MICHIGAN.

SKIRT--SUPIPOR'TER SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,052, dated January 23, 1900.

Application iiled December 20,1897. Serial No. 662,649. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURA NITsoHnLM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Skirt-Supporter, of whichv the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in skirt-supporters 5 and it has for its object the production of a supporter comprising two eye members adapted to be secured to the band of a skirt and a two-hook member adapted to be removably secured to a corset, the hook member being of such construction as to permit the lateral adjustment of the hooks relative to each other when loosening or tightening the corset.

The invention will iirst be described with reference to the accompanying drawings and then pointed ont in the claims.

Figure l of the drawings is a broken elevation illustrating the application of my invention as a skirt-supporter, the dotted lines showing the adjusting feature of the hook member. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the hook member and the eye members together. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the device in use.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a corset, B a skirt, and C a waist.

To the bend b of the skirt B, I secure the eye members D, as shown, these members being of any well-known construction.

E represents a two-hook member having two eye-hooks c, the member being preferably constructed of a single length of wire. In forming the member I take a single length of wire and form a bend l nearone end, leaving a hook 2 at the end of the wire. I then project thc wire downward from bend 1 for a suitable distance, as at 3, and form one of the eye-hooks e, then project the wire upward parallel with portion 3 for a short distance, as at e, then bend it slightly out from the parallel course and project it upward at an ineline, as at 5, to near the height of bend 2, then, forming a broad bend 6, project the wire downward at an incline, repeating the above-described operation in inverse order to form the other side of the member, all as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

In using my invention the hooks 2 of the hook member E are loosely inserted in opposite eyelet-holes 7 of the corset A, as shown, the eye members D having been previously secured to the skirt-band b and the eyes passed over and caused to engage the eye-hooks e, thus supporting the skirt. If it is desired to hold the waist down also, the latter is placed in proper position over the hooks e and the eyes then placed on the hooks, all as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

The band b of the skirt is of sufficient height to cover the eye members when in place on the hooks, so that when the device is in place no part of the device is Visible.

The main feature of my invention resides in the adj nstability of the eye-hooks with regard to each otherin order to permitthe corset to be loosened or tightened, this adjusting being accomplished through the strands 5 and the bend 6, as will be evident. By forming the portion 4 in the wire near each hook e just before projecting the Wire upward to form the strands 5 I am enabled to keep the movement necessary 'for the adjustment of the hooks entirely confined to the strands 5 and the bend G, thus permitting the adjustment without in any manner interfering with or affecting the eye-hooks e.

I am aware that a device has been heretofore constructed in which the adjusting feature above referred to was attempted; but I am not aware of any device in which the adjusting was accomplished without in any manner interfering with or affecting the eyehooks.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a skirt and a corset, of eye members secured to the skirt, and an integral two-hook member adapted to rcceive the eye members, said hook member being formed with hooks for entering the eyelets in the corset and with eye-hooks adapted to receive the eye members on the skirt, the eye-hooks being connected by a strand of wire leading from one eye-hook upward at an incline, then broadly bent and projected downward at an incline to the other eyehook, whereby the eye-hooks are capable of lateral IOO adjustment relative to each other without afhooks being on a horizontal plane, and the fecting their shape. two eye hooks being also on a horizontal 2. As an article of manufacture, a twoplane lower than the plane of the hooks, subr 5 hook member made of a single length of wire stantially as described.

5 bent at one end to form a hook, then projected In testimony that I claim the foregoing as downward a suitable distance and formed my own I have hereto affixed my signature in into an eye-hook, then projected upward at presence of two witnesses. an incline and formed' with a broad bend, then projected downward at an opposite incline LAURA NITSCHELM' 1o from the rst, then projected outward and Witnesses:

formed into an eye-hook, and finally pro- Mrs. A. C. MOULTON,A jected upward and bent into a hook, the two JOHN D. POTTER. 

